Here I am going through how to setup LACP port trunking for a Synology NAS device using HP Switching.
1. First off get your MAC Addresses of your Synology NAS interfaces you want to configure, these can be found in the DSM web login under Control Panel > Info Center > Network
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My Firefox tabs have filled up again, some of these tabs have been open since the start of 2014!!!
So time to share!!!
First off, proud to announce that Cisco asked me to produce a blog post, and decided it was good enough to release into the wild on their site!!!
Get Certified, or get left behind!!!!
PowerShell and Scripting
http://explainshell.com/ – write down a command-line to see the help text that matches each argument
scriptcop.start-automating.com – ScriptCop is a tool to help make sure your scripts follow the rules. ScriptCop performs static analysis on your PowerShell, and provides tools for automating testing with PowerShell. Continue reading More Blogs and sites I’ve been reading and sharing
Great news, I’ve been invited to speak at the North West VMUG on the 25th February. And there is a raffle for a iPad Air 2 and nVidia K2 Graphics card. (That’s the selling points of why to come covered).
The VMUGs are great, you usually get some free training, a couple of vendors taking about their products, with less of a sales slant. And someone from the community taking about their real experiences. For the North West VMUG, Nathan and Steve both put a lot of effort into the agenda ensuring a day that will cater to most, and ensure there is always something you can take away.
This means they put a heavy focus on the people who turn up, and what they want. Which personally, when I attend, is not the usual sales talk about a product. Take the last event for example, Trend where there talking about how great their product is and the fact it beats everyone else. However there was an opportunity to really grill the speaker, who was a techie just like me. I was able to get down to the nitty gritty about trend’s worldwide connected features to detect and block threats in near real-time. The speaker also detailed about one of their biggest customers, and the challenges faced, and how by implementing trend helped them. Rather than the usual, this product is used by 40% of Fortune 500 companies.
Where do I fit in?
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VMware have finally released a patch to fix the Major CBT bug that causes your backups to be corrupted because the changed blocks are reported incorrectly.
Within the release notes for the 5.5 latest patch, its kind of hidden away to the point that I missed it the first time.
When you use backup software that uses the Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) API call QueryChangedDiskAreas(), the list of allocated disk sectors returned might be incorrect and incremental backups might appear to be corrupt or missing. A message similar to the following is written to vmware.log: DISKLIB-CTK: Resized change tracking block size from XXX to YYY For more information, see KB 2090639.
You can get the patches below for your version of choice, however there is no fix for ESXi 4.x yet.
ESXi 5.0 Patch 10 – Patch information
ESXi 5.1 Update 3 – Patch Information
ESXi 5.5 Patch 4 – Patch Information
You will need your my.vmware.com login details to access the patch repository to download the zip file, then just import it into your VMware Update Manager within Admin View.
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Dean
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On a Server 2008 R2 machine, I had an issue demoting from being a Domain Controller, after moving the FSMO roles onto a new machine. This was after a second domain controller died. I am not sure of the previous history of where the FSMO roles were for this client.
Two new DC’s were created and promoted, after cleaning up DNS to remove the old configuration of the dead DC.
I was provided with the following error in a dialog box and in the event log
